European Union

European Union (EU)

the economic and political grouping that came into effect in 1993 and resulted from the European Union Treaty, an important treaty signed at Maastricht on 7 February 1992. It amended the EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (EEC) Treaty, indeed, renaming it the European Community. Thus the present legal structure is called the EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES or the European Union.

Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will receive in Berlin on Monday EU Council President Donald Tusk, French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to Berlin for talks on how to secure European unity after Britain referendum vote to quit the 28-member bloc.

Speaking in the German city of Hanover ahead of a summit with Mr Cameron and other EU leaders, the American leader acknowledged that European unity involved "frustrating compromise", but hailed the multinational union as "one of the greatest political and economic achievements of modern times".

Its thirty-three chapters explore the ways in which various political parties, civic groups, and other entities disseminated information on and ideas about the European unity movement from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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